Filed under MCG-6Feb2010

Match : Australia v West Indies, 1st ODI of 5 ODI CB series 2010.
Venue/Date : Melbourne cricket ground in Austrlaia.. 7 February 2010.
Debut : none.
Toss : West Indies, elected to field.
Result : Australia won by .
Series result : Australia leads 1-0, 4 game to go.
Man of the match : Australia won by 113 runs.
Umpires : Bruce Oxenford (Australia) + Billy Bowden (New Zealand).

Head to head : 121st Australia v West Indies one day match it was. Australia now have 60, West Indies 57 with 2 tied and 2 no results. In Australia, this was 71st encounter and West Indies lead is now cut down to 35 to 33 with 1 tied and 2 no results. at Melbourne, 26th ODI between Australia and West Indies it was and visitors lead has now slipped to 13 to 11 with 1 tied and 1 no result.

Australia inings : went off smoothly with Shane Watson and Shaun Marsh adding exactly 50 from first 10 overs despite some firey fast bowling from Kemar Roach. Captain Ricky Ponting continued good work done by openers but in middle overs, Windies part time bowlers, specially Keiron Pollard and Dwayne Smith with their clever medium pace and left arm othodox of Nikita Miller as well as captain Gayle himself as offspinner. Australians did well to go part 250 run mark, utilising batting power play well.

West Indies were never in chase after captain Chris Gayle departed early, although Kieron Pollard's half century partnership with Lendl Simmons impressed with some good shots.

Australia innings (invited in to bat)		R	B	4s	6s
Shane Watson	c Morton b Chris Gayle	59	74	3	0
Shaun Marsh	c Ramdin b Dwayne Smith	20	34	3	0
Ricky Ponting	b Keiron Pollard	49	61	1	2
Michael Clarke	c Ramdin b Keiron Pollard	18	30	0	0
Cameron White	c Ramdin b Kemar Roach	22	35	1	0
Michael Hussey	c Ramdin b Ravi Rampaul	28	25	2	0
Brad Haddin	c & b Keiron Pollard	8	14	0	0
Mitchell Johnson	b Ravi Rampaul	21	20	2	0
Nathan Hauritz	not out	6	6	0	0
Ryan Harris	not out	2	1	0	0
Doug Bollinger
Extras	(b=4, lb=9, wd=10)	23
Total	(50 overs)	256 for 8 wkts
Bowling		O	M	R	W
Kemar Roach	(1 wide)	10	1	41	1
Ravi Rampaul		8	0	43	2
Dwayne Smith	(1 wide)	8	0	42	1
Nikita Miller		8	0	40	0
Chris Gayle	(1 wide)	6	0	32	1
Keiron Pollard	(3 wides)	10	0	45	3

West Indies innings (target = 257 from 50 overs)		R	B	4s	6s
Chris Gayle	c Johnson b Bollinger	7	5	1	0
Runako Morton	c Haddin b Harris	3	15	0	0
Travis Dowlin	c White b Bollinger	1	4	0	0
Lendl Simmons	c Haddin b Watson	29	62	1	0
Narsingh Deonarine	c Ponting b Johnson	19	31	3	0
Keiron Pollard	c Johnson b Hauritz	31	35	3	0
Denesh Ramdin	b Harris	17	14	2	0
Dwayne Smith	c Watson b Hauritz	7	20	1	0
Nikita Miller	c Haddin b Harris	4	10	0	0
Ravi Rampaul	c Marsh b Hauritz	3	10	0	0
Kemar Roach	not out	0	0	0	0
Extras	(b=4, lb=7, wd=11)	22
Total	(34.2 overs)	143 all out
Bowling		O	M	R	W
Doug Bollinger	(1 wide)	6	3	18	2
Ryan Harris	(2 wides)	9	1	24	3
Mitchell Johnson	(3 wides)	7	0	31	1
Shane Watson		6	0	31	1
Nathan Hauritz		6.2	0	28	3

Preview : Windies injured : Aussies look to continue unbeaten run.

Scorecard : Australia v West Indies, 1st ODI, Melbourne : 7 Feb 2010

1st ODI : Another windies fight : Another Aussie win, 8th in row.

Scorecard : Australia v West Indies, 2nd ODI, Adelaide : 9 Feb 2010

Scorecard : Australia v West Indies, 4th ODI, Brisbane : 14 Feb 2010

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